by demure

sun

'The French Are Very Bad at Picking Asparagus.' - Wall Street Journal (mirror)

birds

A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. And Russia’s Secret Undersea Agenda. - New York Times (mirror)

sky

My Father's Voice from Paris - The New Yorker (mirror)

hubski highlight

My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore? - New York Times (mirror)

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demure's desk

There is another word for this extremist noticing—this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-theres and seen-thats of the adult mind—and that word, of course, is wonder.

Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire

funnies

Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, 21 March 1990